In November 1996, Papunya Tula Artists held its first exhibition of women painters outside of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), at the commercial gallery Utopia Art Sydney. It was from this exhibition that John W. Kluge acquired this work by Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa. The exhibition sold out, with many of the paintings acquired by major institutions including the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In this work, Nyurapayia has depicted a group of ancestral women at Yulparitja in the Great Sandy Desert. The women are shown collecting maku (witchetty grubs). On the left of the canvas the women can be seen depicted as U shapes with their digging sticks and circular wooden bowls. In the late 1960s, the anthropologist Richard A. Gould acquired several carved wooden tools made by Nyurapayia, including the type of digging sticks these ancestral women would have used, while undertaking fieldwork in the Warburton Ranges. These objects are now held in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.